CEPA Summer Institutes

The Summer Institutes for Art Educators are held in the summer months that correspond to Public School summer vacation schedules.  The Institutes provide intensive one to two week instruction in art education and its related fields of study.  Art Education and Visual Studies classes meet for one week, all studio courses run for two weeks.  The Institutes connect students with community resources and visiting artist/ scholars.  The Institutes are designed to provide in-depth experiences that are unavailable through regular coursework.

Registration for  Summer Institutes will begin on
Monday, March 15, 2010

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COURSE CANCELED FAR 503:  The Painter's Craft:  Encaustic & Egg Tempera 
Dr. John White, June 21 - July 2, 2010

COURSE CLOSED ARU 525:  Product Design for K-12 Classroom
Professor Lyn Godley, June 28 - July 2, 2010

COURSE CLOSED ARU/CFT 546:  Enameling:  The color, technique, and fun
Professor James Malenda, July 5 - 16, 2010      

ARU 556:  An Invitation to the Dinner Party
Dr. Marilyn Stewart, July 11 - 16, 2010

COURSE CLOSED ARU/FAR 501:  Figure Drawing:  Varieties of approaches and materials
Professor Anna Kuo, July 19 - 30, 2010

COURSE CLOSED  ARU/CFT 543:  Dynamic Hand-building for the Classroom
Professor James Chaney, July 19 - 30 - 2010 

COURSE CANCELED ARU/CDE 507:  Self-Promotion and Identity Design for Artists, Designers, and Educators   Professor Elaine Cunfer & Professor Vicki Melony, August 2 - 13, 2010

Art Education Study Institute ARU/FAR 503:  The Painter's Craft:  Encaustic & Egg Tempera, June 21 - July 2, 2010

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer The Painter’s Craft:  Encaustic and Egg Tempera.  Contemporary painters have taken to the use of traditional painting materials to make work that makes reference to contemporary life.  This institute will emphasize the preparation of paints, supports, grounds from basic sources.  Participants will work in egg tempera and encaustic.  They will prepare painting surfaces using traditional techniques and they will prepare paint from dry pigments.  The use of traditional materials can provide a welcome opportunity and a critical distance to reconsider contemporary life.  Students will be encouraged to focus on imagery that emerges from the properties of these materials.  The course will include lectures on contemporary artists and a trip to view contemporary and traditional painting.  Class enrollment limited to 15 students.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

The institute is designed to offer two weeks of studio work, lectures, critical discussions, and individual consultations.  The institute will meet 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday from June 21 through July 2, 2010.  The institute will meet in the Sharadin Arts Building room 205.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Dr. John Howell White, Coordinator, Professor of Art Education and Crafts, and Chair of the Department has conducted Study Institutes for the past ten years at Kutztown University.  He holds an MFA in painting, a Ph.D. in art education and presents the results of his research on the history and philosophy of art education at regional and national conferences.  His teaching experience includes thirteen years of teaching art in K-12 settings.  Presently he is developing a series of paintings in egg tempera.

Carol Odell, is an artist and a professional painter.  She holds a BFA from the Boston Museum School/Tufts University.  She has expertise in oil paint, gouache, monotype, and encaustic.  She is the owner and manager of the Odell studio/gallery in Chatham, MA.  She has been the Artist-in-Residence at Cape Cod Community College, and will be (is) teaching at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill since 2007.  She has exhibited by invitation in numerous New England galleries and museums and in many juried group shows.   http://www.odellarts.com/carolodell.html

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                            $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                     PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition            $1,386.00                     $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday                  $315.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. John Howell White
The Painter’s Craft: Traditional techniques and contemporary art
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4521                 
FAX:       (610) 683-4502                  
E-MAIL:  white@kutztown.edu

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Art Education Study Institute ARU 525:  Product Design for K-12 Classroom, June 28 - July 2, 2010

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is please to offer Product Design for the K-12 Classroom.  Students in this institute will be introduced to the broad field of Product Design, how the same elements that drive art are incorporated into functional objects, and how to implement Product Design projects into the K-12 curriculum.  Class enrollment is limited to 15 students.

The world that people in the twenty-first century inhabit is largely the result of product design.  The design process has contributed to devices for communicating, traveling, reading, playing, eating, sleeping, working, and almost every other aspect of our lives.  Product design is a vibrant and viable career.  It is also a way to make creativity applicable, to enrich our relationship with the objects that fill our lives.  The Institute will serve as an introduction to the field, provide art education teacher with important knowledge to in turn teach to their students.

Course field trips will include travel to New York City, and IKEA.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This particular design institute focuses on the implementation of Product Design projects for K-12 curriculum.  No previous experience is needed.  The institute will meet 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday from June 28^th  through July 2^nd.  This Institute meets at Sharadin Arts Building room 206, Kutztown University.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Lyn Godley, Faculty at Kutztown University and holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University.  Lyn has taught at Kutztown for four years in Foundation and Product Design areas, as well as, at Parsons School of Design in Product Design.  She is active in the field of furniture and Lighting Design and has work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Arts & Design, and the Denver Art Museum, among others.  Her work focuses primarily in Lighting and her most current work can be seen at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA where 7000 programmable LEDs light the façade of the building every evening.

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                              $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                    PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition              $1,386.00                      $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Five Nights--Sunday-Thursday                  $186.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Prof. Lyn Godley
Product Design for the K-12 Classroom
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4815
FAX:       (610) 683-4502
E-MAIL:  godley@kutztown.edu

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer Enameling: The color, technique, and fun.  If you would like to introduce enameling into your classroom, or increase your jewelry making skills, vocabulary, and scope, then this is the course for you!  Explore some of the newer, nontraditional materials such as: liquids, acrylics, crayons, pencils, rubber stamps, metal foils, and lusters.  These materials are particularly suited to the classroom for quick, easy, fun results.  Along with the newer materials and techniques, more established and traditional materials and processes will be covered including: Cloisonne, Limoges, Champleve, Basse-taille, and Plique-a-Jour.

In addition, when applicable, metal fabrication will be covered.  This will include, but not be limited to: soldering, cold connections, tabs, and hot settings.  No previous experience is required.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute is designed to offer two full weeks (Monday, July 5^th through Friday, July 16^th ,  8:00 am-5:00 pm) of hands-on intense workshops, lecture, seminars, small group and individual consultations.  Classes will meet in the Fine Metals Studio, Sharadin Arts Building, Room 106.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

James Malenda, professor of Fine Metals at Kutztown University has exhibited, lectured, and conducted numerous workshops both nationally and internationally.  He has taught enameling at Penland, Haystack, Arrowmont, and the J.C. Campbell Folk School.  His work is published in 500 Enameled Objects and he was recently invited to exhibit three works at the 7th Enamel Festival at GIRAEFE in Morez, France.

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                             $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                   PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE Required Institute Fee/Tuition             $1,386.00                      $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday                     $315.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Professor James Malenda
Enameling: The color, technique, and fun.
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4503
FAX:      (610) 683-4502
E-MAIL:  malenda@kutztown.edu

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KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY, in partnership with Through the Flower, a nonprofit feminist art organization founded by Judy Chicago, is pleased to offer:  AN INVITATION TO THE DINNER PARTY.  Join artist Judy Chicago and members of The Dinner Party Curriculum Team to explore and experience the rich content of The Dinner Party. 

Executed between 1974 and 1979 with the participation of hundreds of volunteers, this monumental multimedia project, a symbolic history of women in Western Civilization, has been seen by more than one million viewers during its sixteen exhibitions held at venues spanning six countries.  In March of 2007, The Dinner Party was permanently installed at the Brooklyn Museum.  In April of 2009, The Dinner Party Curriculum was officially launched at the National Art Education Association annual conference.  

Participate in this substantive, active week and be part of this major curriculum initiative designed to provide educators with materials to teach about this significant artwork.  Engage in inquiry based activities designed to deepen your understanding of The Dinner Party while exploring ideas, activities and lessons for use in your K-12 teaching.  Members of the Dinner Party Curriculum Team will introduce the concepts and practices associated with feminist pedagogy, an approach to teaching synonymous with the artist since she introduced it in the 1970s. 

As a special highlight, you will join Judy Chicago for a private viewing of The Dinner Party on site at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at The Brooklyn Museum. 

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute will begin with an organizational meeting and dinner on Sunday, July 11 from 3:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m.  Daily sessions will officially begin at 9 a.m., but the doors will be open at 8:30 a.m. to peruse resource materials in the institute meeting room, Sharadin 113.  We will conclude daily at 5:00 p.m., with the exception of Tuesday, July 13, when we travel to the Brooklyn Museum and arrive home around 10 p.m.  Please note that the institute is strictly limited to 30 participants.

INSTITUTE FACULTY AND COORDINATOR:

Dr. Marilyn Stewart, The Dinner Party Curriculum Project Director, is a Professor of Art Education at KU, co-author of the elementary and middle school art textbook program, Explorations in Art, co-author of Rethinking Curriculum in Art, author of Thinking Through Aesthetics, and editor of the Art Education in Practice series, all published by Davis Publications.  A frequent keynote speaker and consultant in national curriculum projects, she has conducted over 200 extended staff development institutes, seminars, or in-service days in over 25 states.

 NON-CREDIT OPTION                               $275.00

 GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                      PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE  Required Institute Fee/Tuition                $1,386.00                     2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

 HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Five Nights--Sunday-Thursday                 $186.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Marilyn Stewart, Coordinator, An invitation to the Dinner Party                         Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4517                 
FAX:       (610) 683-4502                  
E-MAIL: stewart@kutztown.edu

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Art Education Study Institute ARU/FAR 501:  Figure Drawing:  Varieties of approaches and materials, July 19 - 30, 2010

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is please to offer Figure Drawing: Varieties of approaches and materials.  This is a course where students will be creating artwork from the observation of nude models.  A variety of models will be scheduled each day over the duration of the institute.  This is a course in which the students’ artistic development and their production of artwork are emphasized.  During the Institute each student will have the opportunity to produce a number of completed artworks created over the two weeks.  Class enrollment is limited to 15 students.

The Institute will begin with a review of general life drawing issues such as gesture, proportion and composition.  The class will be utilizing a variety of materials while creating different approaches to figuration.  Media approaches will include color pastels, water-based paint/ink media as well as traditional dry-based drawing materials.  Substrates choices of either paper or canvas may be chosen by each student.  Students will have the freedom to combine media in unique and personal ways.  They will also have the individual opportunity to choose their preference of aesthetic stylization ranging from traditionally based realism to more expressive or abstract conceptions of the human form.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute involves two weeks of studio work accompanied by lectures, critique/discussions and individual consultations.  Students should have some prior knowledge and experience in drawing from nude figures in order to facilitate their developing a more personal approach to imaging the figure.  The institute will meet 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday from July 19 to 30, 2010.  This course meets in the Life Drawing Studio, Room 124 in the Sharadin Arts building.  The studio is located off the second level hallway that faces “College Boulevard”.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Anna Kuo, Faculty is a Professor in the Fine Arts department at Kutztown University and holds an MFA in Painting from State University of New York at Buffalo.  She has taught Drawing and Painting at Kutztown University since 1977.  She has been in numerous group and solo exhibitions across the nation.  Her artwork is included in public and private collections.  Anna Kuo has also been a three time recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships for Individual Artists.

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                           $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                  PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition          $1,386.00                      $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday                  $315.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                   FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Prof. Anna Kuo
Figure Drawing: Variety of approaches and materials
Department of Fine Arts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4544 
FAX:      (610) 683-1561               
E-MAIL:  kuo@kutztown.edu

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Art Education Study Institute ARU/CFT 543:  Dynamic Hand-building for the Classroom, July 19 - 30, 2010

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is please to offer Dynamic Hand-building for the Classroom.   Students in this institute will be introduced to innovative strategies for manipulating plastic clay by hand into three dimensional functional forms.  Commercial cone 6 clay, electric kilns, and both commercial and shop formulated glazes will be used.  Class enrollment will be limited to 15 students.

This workshop will enable the participant to move beyond the basic box and cylinder forms most commonly associated with hand-built ceramics.  Our featured presenter, Sandi Pierantozzi, will demonstrate how to create circular and rectangular templates as part of her “parts and darts” presentation, generating the “building blocks” of curving, volumetric forms.  Surface embellishment will be built into the works through the use of home-made texture “plates”.

During the second week, High School Art Educator, Jeff Dietrich, will add his “best practices” tips for clay in the classroom and assist the participants in generating age appropriate ceramic lesson plans incorporating and adapting techniques explored during the institute.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This particular ceramic institute focused on generating small scale functional hand-built volumes, easily accommodates those with little previous ceramic experience.  The institute will meet 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday from July 19^th through 30^th.  This Institute meets in the Ceramic Studio in the newly renovated, air conditioned Sharadin Art Building room 108.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

James Chaney, Faculty and Coordinator is a Professor of Ceramics at Kutztown University and holds an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University.  Jim has explored interpretive functional work, both through slip-casting and throwing, most recently firing his work in a wood fired Anagama-style kiln, constructed after study in Japan.  His work is exhibited at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia.

Sandi Pierantozzi,  has been a center city Philadelphia studio potter since 1984.  She has presented numerous workshops across the country, in a variety of venues, including at the annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, NCECA.  Her work can be found in numerous collections including that of Alfred University, as well as in over a dozen books on pottery.  Recently, she organized “Handbuilt”, the first national conference/workshop focused on Hand-building , which was held at the Wyane Art Center, and has been reviewed in the Nov/Dec, 2009. issue of  Clay Times.

Jeff Dietrich, obtained his B.S. and M.A. in Art Education from Kutztown University.  He currently teaches high school Visual Arts and Ceramics at Oley Valley High School.  Jeff’s extensive studio clay work has covered both high and low fire temperature ranges, using both gas and electric kilns.  His personal expression has ranged from remarkable pit-fired jars to interpretations of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch red ware.  Jeff brings significant, practical hands-on classroom experience to this workshop.  

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                             $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                    PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition              $1,386.00                      $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear South Village and linens (2 sheets, 2  towels, 1 washcloth and a pillow).

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday                    $315.00

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Prof. James Chaney
Dynamic Hand-building for the Classroom
Department of Art Education and Crafts, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4508                 
FAX:      (610) 683-4502                  
E-MAIL:  chaney@kutztown.edu

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Art Education Study Institute ARU/CDE 507:  Self-Promoting and Identity Design for Artists, Designers, and Educators, August 2 - 13, 2010

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer an intensive two-week institute: Self-promotion and Identity Design for Artists, Designers, and Educators.  This institute will focus on designing a comprehensive personal visual identity system, including a logo, letterhead system and other promotional print items.  Emphasis will be placed on developing professional quality marketing materials that will promote your unique artwork, services and/or skills as a distinct brand.  Class enrollment limited to 15 students.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute is designed to offer ten days of concentrated studio involvement for the designer/artist/educator interested in learning about the benefits of creating personal identity materials using the skills and tools of Communication Designers.  The institute will meet 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday from August 2 through 13, 2010.  This institute is offered for all levels and varieties of experience, but fundamental knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop is required. The institute will meet in the Sharadin Arts Building room 105.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Elaine Cunfer and Vicki Meloney are professors in the Communication Design Department at Kutztown University.  They instruct all levels of graphic design courses including Corporate Identity, Publication Design, Editorial Design and Poster Design. Professor Cunfer’s work as an illustrator and graphic designer has been seen in numerous posters throughout the Lehigh and Berks County Region.  Her illustration and design work has been published in national journals including Print Magazine and the Society of Newspapers Design Annuals.  Professor Meloney has a successful freelance graphic design business that focus’s on non-profit clients.  Her design work has been published in many graphic design books and has won dozens of national and international awards.

FEES

NON-CREDIT OPTION                                   $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                        PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition                  $1,386.00                   $2,143.90

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

We are not able to provide housing for this institute.

Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Registrar's Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2010. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Prof. Elaine Cunfer & Prof. Vickie Meloney
Self-promotion and Identity Design for artists, designers, and educators
Department of Communication Design
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4523                 
FAX:      (610) 683-4619                 
E-MAIL:  cunfer@kutztown.edu or meloney@kutztown.edu 

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Past Institutes have been organized in partnership with The Allentown Art Museum, Binney & Smith, and The Schuylkill National and State Heritage Area.

Center for Exemplary Practices in the Arts is dedicated to the establishment of Best Practices in the teaching of the visual arts and visual literacy. The Center fosters the development of a community of art educators, programs in professional development, and research into exemplary teaching in the visual arts.